The economic, social and human cost of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) exceeds billions of dollars in health care expenses and lost wages annually, and in morbidity and mortality. The drive toward economic growth based on GDP-centred development is often based on consumption of unhealthy commodities which conflict with NCD prevention and policy coherence efforts. There is a need for urgent action to reverse the harmful impact and to focus on promoting healthier populations. Join the NCD Hard Talk to discuss the emerging paradigm that promotes health and wellbeing for all over economic growth, aiming to develop wellbeing policy to prevent NCDs.
● The webinar connects the wellbeing agenda with current programmatic approaches to NCDs to promote health and improve quality of life for all, aiming to:
● Present how the wellbeing policy agenda adds value to existing strategies aimed at addressing NCDs.
● Share current country experiences on how wellbeing policy approaches help to accelerate progress towards NCD prevention and control.
● Investigate how wellbeing could be used to build societies forward after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers:
Zsuzsanna Jakab, Deputy Director General, WHO HQ
Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, Healthier Populations, WHO, Switzerland
Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Saila Ruuth, State Secretary to Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen
Dr Hussein Abdulrahman Al Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Centres and Clinic and Public Health, UAE
Mark Pearson, Deputy-Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Veronica Shiroya, doctoral candidate of Public Health at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University in Germany
Professor Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University
Rüdiger Krech, Director, Health Promotion Department, WHO, Switzerland
Hope Corbin, Associate professor of Health and Community Studies at Western Washington University.
Mihály Kökény, Former Chairman of WHO’s Executive Board
Gaya Gamhewage, Head of Learning & Capacity development, WHO Health Emergencies Programme